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Foto – simple image viewer

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Foto is a simple image viewer. It simply shows an image either on a window or in the terminal. It is designed to be used in scripts.

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Vulnerability Detection

octoscan – static vulnerability scanner

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Octoscan is a static vulnerability scanner for GitHub action workflows.

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Encrypted Files

Encpipe – encryption tool

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Encpipe is billed as the simplest encryption tool in the world.

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Programming

Rouge – elegant, extendable code highlighter

February 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 200 different languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text.

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QR Tools

CoBang – QR code and barcode scanner

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CoBang is a native QR Code and barcode scanner application for the Linux desktop.

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PixelViewer – cross-platform image viewer

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

PixelViewer is a cross-platform image viewer supports reading raw Luminance/YUV/RGB/ARGB/Bayer pixels data from file and rendering it.

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sesdiff – generates a shortest edit script

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms Software

sesdiff is a shortest edit script diff that’s written in the Rust programming language.

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XEphem – Serious Interactive Astronomical Software Ephemeris

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

XEphem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems including Linux.

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IntelliShell – like IntelliSense, but for shells

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

IntelliShell acts like a bookmark store for commands. No need to have a clean history to find something useful with CTRL + R.

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Snip – simple snippet manager

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Snip is a simple snippet manager for your predefined Ultisnips Snippet Directory.

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Programming

Re-Highlight – powerful syntax highlighter

February 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Re-Highlight is a powerful syntax highlighter, which is a sub-module of the Reqable project.

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Coding

Freeze – generate images of code and terminal output

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Utilities

Freeze generates PNGs, SVGs, and WebPs of code and terminal output alike.

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QR Tools

Qreator – create your own QR codes

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Qreator enables you to easily create your own QR codes to encode different types of information in an efficient and compact way.

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Linux Distributions

Tucana – Linux distribution built for customization

February 5, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Tucana is an ultra customizable distro built entirely from scratch. Essentially Tucana is a Build-Kit where you can share you customizations.

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Monitor System

20 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.

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Vulnerability Detection

Greenbone Vulnerability Manager – central management service

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

The Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is the central management service between security scanners and the user clients.

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Encrypted Files

PGPTool – encrypt and decrypt files

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

PGPTool is a Java-based desktop GUI application for easy and regular PGP decryption/encryption.

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Eye of MATE – simple graphics viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Eye of MATE (or eom) is the official image viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment.

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Project Management

Scrumlens – agile retrospective tool

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Web Apps

Scrumlens is an agile retrospective tool. Real-time, and designed to make your team’s voice heard loud and clear.

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Programming

Chroma – general purpose syntax highlighter

February 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Chroma takes source code and other structured text and converts it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI-coloured text, and more.

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